Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

2007-11-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > 2007-11-01 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * m4/putenv.m4 (gl_FUNC_PUTENV): Also mention that we're checking > for compatibility with GNU. Oh, the doc that I had provided is wrong. I'm realizing now that the 'putenv' module is not needed for POSIX compatibil

gnulib workaround for missing wchar.h on FreeBSD 4.2?

2007-11-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
I'm trying to build a GNU toolchain on FreeBSD 4.2. Unfortunately this machine has no , which causes failures for anything trying to use this header, which usually show up in gnulib's replacement module (e.g. coreutils and m4 die when trying to '#include ""'). Is there already a gnulib patch fo

Re: regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-11-01 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Eggert wrote: > Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> # ac_use_included_regex is NOT cached, so we have to duplicate the >> # logic of src/glm4/regex.m4! >> case $with_included_regex in >> yes|no) ac_use_included_regex=$with_included_r

Re: regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # ac_use_included_regex is NOT cached, so we have to duplicate the > # logic of src/glm4/regex.m4! > case $with_included_regex in > yes|no) ac_use_included_regex=$with_included_regex ;; > '') case $gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_working in > yes)

removing the final vestiges of the jm_ prefix from gnulib

2007-11-01 Thread Jim Meyering
There are still a bunch cache variables with my jm_ prefix. I'm about to change them all to use gl_ instead. The only risk is that some other project is using the jm_-prefixed variable names (most likely in configure.ac). There *are* two uses in coreutils configure.ac, but that's not surprising, s

Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

2007-11-01 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Paul Eggert wrote: > Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> * m4/putenv.m4 (gl_FUNC_PUTENV): Require gl_STDLIB_H_DEFAULTS. Instead >> of defining putenv in config.h, just set REPLACE_PUTENV. > > Thanks for doing that. I had written something quite similar but you > beat me to it

Re: Compilation problem with base64.c

2007-11-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Guy Rutenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > When trying to compile base64.c using g++ I got the following compilation > problems: Hi! Thanks for your feedback. However, I looked at your patch, and as far as I could tell, they were all work arounds for your environment. Thus, I don't t

Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * m4/putenv.m4 (gl_FUNC_PUTENV): Require gl_STDLIB_H_DEFAULTS. Instead > of defining putenv in config.h, just set REPLACE_PUTENV. Thanks for doing that. I had written something quite similar but you beat me to it. One minor change, which I

Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Rice
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bruno Haible wrote: > Tim Rice wrote: > > None of that, but I did find a problem with the build environment > > ... > > I got the build environment fixed now. > > OK. But this means I cannot trust your 6 other reports either. If you want > something to be done about them, you

Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

2007-11-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > It looks fine and works for coreutils. > You're welcome to apply it. Applied.

Re: m4-1.4.10

2007-11-01 Thread Bruno Haible
> Tim Rice reported 7 different issues: > > (1) UnixWare 7.1.1 extended stdio > (2) OpenServer 5.0.4extended stdio > (3) UnixWare 7.1.1 closein > (4) UnixWare 7.1.1 vasprintf-posix > (5) Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 stdbool & gl_list > (6) OpenServ

Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-11-01 Thread Bruno Haible
Tim Rice wrote: > None of that, but I did find a problem with the build environment > ... > I got the build environment fixed now. OK. But this means I cannot trust your 6 other reports either. If you want something to be done about them, you need to redo these builds in a clean environment, with

Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

2007-11-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Jim, here is a proposed patch to the 'putenv' module. Apart from changing > the location of the "#define putenv rpl_putenv", this also changes the > parameter type from 'const char *' to 'char *', for POSIX compliance. ... Hi Bruno, Thanks for the pat